for help :( My home life is in the least complicated. My grandparents have been in and out of hospital since i was 7 and, currently, my grandma has kicked my grandad out after having a stroke, so he lives with us, as my grandad has slight mental problems during the night. My...

I cannot say it... I end up making them guess, then I feel bad for that and I feel like I'm bothering them... I just cannot win.If I don't ask for help I feel worse but if I do ask.. I feel worse anyway..

When people say this to others, they are often not sure on what to say.
Sometimes it is a sincere plea to others.
Sometimes it is said out of misunderstanding what the problem is.
SOmetimes it is said to get people to stop bothering.
Sometimes it is just a thought of concern...

I don't know how to do it anymore. I tried so many times, so many ways. I could just never get the words out. I even said the words out loud to someone, to my mom. I told her I'm depressed. I said it too casually, I said it at the wrong time. She thought I meant I'm lonely or I'm...

How do I tell you that I am sitting here alone, with my heart breaking on the inside, and the tears are falling on the outside. How do I tell you, that I am falling deeper into this dark place, and I am scared out of my mind. How do I tell you, that I don't completly trust myself...

When I was young, I learned that asking for help was a sign of weakness - well, to ME - it was a sign of weakness. As I grow older, I don't fear this as much.
This last year of my life has REALLY opened my eyes in SO many ways.
I'm still getting...

It's Nothing to do with Pride. It's nothing to do with making a Fool out of myself. It's just hard For me to ask For help. Because I am so use to doing everything by myself, It Feels like asking for help would be Contradicting my Independence.

I wrote another story, in another group in reference to my molestation as a child.. I really have a hard time thinking and talking about it. I havent told anybody but those you on ep about it. A recent event caused the memory to surface and its putting me on the verge of a mental...

why I get this feeling of defeat. I recently started talking to someone. Though she is several states away, I do hope for the day that I finally get to meet her. But yet, The person I truly want, keeps slipping away like sands from the hourglass. Why is it that I can not be...

How do I tell you that I am sitting here alone, with my heart breaking on the inside, and the tears are falling on the outside. How do I tell you, that I am falling deeper into this dark place, and I am scared out of my mind. How do I tell you, that I don't completly trust myself...

I don't know how to ask for help. There were times when I could've solved all my problems just by asking for help. There were willing people, I remember someone telling me to just call if I needed help finding a job...I never did. Now, it feels like De Ja Vu, I've been...

When I need it the most, I shut down. I retreat into myself and don't know how what do to or articulate what I need. Sometimes I need someone to just hold me and let me know that they're there. Be gentle and take care of me, give me the space to cry alone (why I...

I could use help, but do I even really want it? I'm not so sure. Sometimes I feel as if feeling depressed & hopeless is where I belong; the only place I can feel comfortable. I don't think I'd even begin to know how to be happy anymore...it's been so long. I wish I didn't have to...

I don't know how to ask for help. I don't know how to do it. I am So bad at reaching out, even when I am at my worst. Yes, I can easily reach out to someone else, when they are hurting, or I see they are suffering, but than when it comes to me, I don't know what to do, I don't...

I don't ask for help really. I try everything else first, I think it through over and over, analyze, try to fix it myself, only when I'm positive I can't go on without it do I ask. Why? Hmm. This confuses me a bit too. I don't want to burden others with my problems? I don't...

I've come to really notice, that we read on many sites, and here from many people that when we are having any form of problem, we need to get help. We are given every step except the first step which is actually having to ask for help; we are told to do it, but we are never told...

So I'm a history student, and I find my classes to be extremely boring. Sure the initial rush of new information is exhilarating, but that quickly fades. I know my job as a historian is to analyze available historical sources and the secondary opinions about them&nbsp...

This is something I have always had trouble with. From asking for a simple helping hand, to a heartwrentching plea.
I still don't know why one little word can be so hard to say. Maybe part of it is admiting that there is a problem in the first place. Like I am...

I wish I had known how, and that I had the strength to ask for help, but I didn't. I would chicken out or avoid certain situations.
My act didnt hold up for long...eventually a professor noticed, and they got a hold of a counselor at the college...
My friends it was NOT a fun...

A lot of people come to see me. They start out their conversation with " I don't need any help, but can we talk?"
That's the key to helping, let others talk.
People feel better about themselves if they can talk without:
1) Disruption
2)Criticism.
Many times...